Receiver for cutting-machines.



PATENTED AUG. 27, 1907.

A. ALLEN. RECEIVER FOR CUTTING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. II 1907.

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AARON ALLEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RECEIVER FOR CUTTING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 27, 1907.

Application filed March 1,1907. Serial No- 359,977-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receivers for Cutting-Machines, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention has relation to a receiving device for application to a machine for slitting or cutting sheets of bank notes and other somewhat similar articles which after being severed or slit are fed irictionally forward and delivered by gravity then onto each other in separate layers or piles for being removed for use, as required.

The nature and scope of my present invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken in connect on with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a bank note slitting machine and in application thereto, is shown a receiving device of my present invention embodying characteristic main features thereof; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view through the slitting machine and receiving device thereof.

In the drawings is represented a type of cutting or slitting machine to separate bank notes from each other, printed in sheet form, to which my invention is par ticularly adapted for the purposes of the present invention. The said machine forming the subjectmatter of a separate application for a patent filed by me under date of March 1st, 1.907, Serial No. 359,976.

With reference to said machine A, 3 is the platform or table provided with a centering guide 4, for a sheet to be slitted. 5 are the standards to which a series of rotary cutters or knives 6 and 7, mounted on horizontal shafts 8 and 9, are journaled. The shafts are extended beyond one of the standards and on which are mounted gear-wheels l0 and 11., which mesh with each other; and on the shaft 9, is secured a hand-crank 12, for revolving the respective shafts 8 and 9, and thereby to rotate the said knives. The respective cutters or knives G and 7, are held in operative relation to each other by means of coiled springs 13. These springs are suitably arranged in contact with one set of knives and in boxes mounted on one of the shafts 9. By such arrangement is insured a uniform severing of the sheets brought in contact with the knives in the rotary action P of the same by the hand-crank 12, so as to form oblong slips of the cut sheet, as in the case of bank notes, checks or like articles, and each of uniform dimension and even edges.

The receiving device B, of my present invention for application to such type of cutting or slitting machine forming the subject-matter of the present application, consists of a box-like receptacle, haying pref r ably inclined side walls 15 and i6, an inclined bottom 17, and an arched projection. 1.8, at the rear upper portion of the device adjacent to the point of delivery of the slitted sheet in the form of oblong slips from the machine A, in order that as these oblong slips issue from the machine A, to the projection 18, the said slips Will ride in frictional cont act with the projection 18, due to the retarding effect of such projectimi upon the traveling slips until beyond a center longitudinally of each of the slips, when by gravity the severed slips of the sheet from the slitting machine A, will be deposited regularly and uniformly over each other, in pile-like form, in the receiving device 13. The respective piles of slips in the receiver 13, may then be readily removed, as desired, for packaging, without the necessity of reassorting by handling the slips. This is a decided advantage in the case of bank notes or other similar articles.

Havin thus described the nature and ob'ect of m b l invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. in a slitting machine, a receiving device provided Willi an inclined bottom and a rear stationary projection, the construction being such, that the oblong slips fed to the projection by the machine and lrictionally contacting with the surface thereof are retarded in their speed of travel so that by gravity they can separately pass onto the bottom of the device in piles, substantially as de scribed.

In a slitting machine. a receiving device provided with an inclined bottom and with a stationary arched pro jection adjacent to the point of delivery of the slips from the machine and over which the slips i'rictionally contact in travel and pass then by gravity onto the inclined bot tom in uniform piles ot'slips separated from each other, substantially as described.

3. A slitting machine provided with a boxlike device having an inclined bottom and with a stationary transverse projection in proximity to the point of delivery of the slips from the machine, the sides of the device extending above said projection the construction being such that the slips fed from the machine to the projection and frictionally contacting therewith are retarded in their speed of travel until by gravity the slips :fall onto one another in separate piles in said device, substantially as described.

In witncss whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 

